A mature economy and limited room for domestic growth tends to push Canada’s biggest firms into foreign forays. And fortunately for RBC Capital Markets, they often choose to do that supported by Canada’s best investment bank.

The eighth biggest bank in the US is on a roll. It has absorbed multiple acquisitions aimed at rebalancing its franchise, broken into corporate banking and wealth management, continued its digital development but at the same time espoused a philosophy that does not consider the branch to be dead. And it has done all this without losing sight of its corporate responsibility goals. Euromoney’s choice this year as the US’s best bank is BB&T.

Another year, another record. TD Bank clocked up its eighth year of record earnings in fiscal 2017 and has already posted a 20% increase in pre-tax profits for the first half of fiscal 2018, indicating that it is on track for yet another triumph as it continues to build across its whole franchise. It is once again Euromoney’s pick for Canada’s best bank.

Having stabilized the bank after the financial crisis, Bank of America’s management conceived a simple plan for its future: maintain a diverse set of businesses but deal with less risky customers; provide them with fewer, simpler products; automate for efficiency; and then grow by doing more for these customers. Easy to say, but hard to do – it took time and billions of dollars of investment. With results now shining through, the bank that once looked too big to succeed has a shot at domination.

Private equity house takes stake in UK payments processor

As treasurers and banks grapple with the arrival of real-time payments and open banking, tech companies are looking at the next phase of payment developments.

Higher merchant fees are creating issues for corporate treasurers, who are concerned with the lack of alternatives in the market.

Goldman Sachs delivered strong first-quarter trading results that were followed by a reorganization of the management of its securities division.

The coming move towards a Volcker Rule 2.0 that relaxes monitoring of proprietary risk taking by bank dealing desks has been portrayed as a result of president Donald Trump’s administration finally placing its preferred officials in key regulatory positions.

Banks face a payments dilemma of either collaborating with fintechs or developing systems in-house, and the same issue is now arising in the approach to regulation and the best way to digitize compliance.

…if you’re big, fast or specialized in modern foreign exchange. That has led to dramatic changes in the volume-based rankings in our annual survey. Meanwhile, new customer satisfaction ratings give a different insight into the banks’ relationships with their clients.

As cities around the US see populations increase, so the smaller banks that serve low- to moderate-income urban families are being squeezed out. New York is no exception. Financial inclusion is at risk of becoming an urban myth.

With six months to go before money market reforms are imposed on all funds in Europe, treasurers hoping to earn a return on their cash are scoping out the best options available.

A soybean trade between two arms of Cargill using letters of credit from HSBC and ING shows the R3 Corda platform is finally set to scale up.

The only assets CFIUS will allow the Chinese to buy are the ones China doesn’t want and won’t allow. What next?

The challenges of regulatory compliance and cyber protection are making financial institutions think more creatively. Machine learning and greater data sharing might be the future of digital banking security.

WeWork’s debut in the high-yield bond market was helped by investors effectively turning a blind eye to its costs of sales.

It needs to be about more than helping people to move money.

An unusual move by a US regulator threatens to widen a conflict over potential manipu-lation of Hovnanian default swaps by Blackstone’s credit arm GSO.

If the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) does decide to weigh in on the issue of whether or not Blackstone’s trading in Hovnanian debt and default swaps constitutes market manipulation, it will revive questions about SEC chairman Jay Clayton’s ties to Goldman Sachs.

The prime brokerage market will be hoping for a boost from the imminent launch of BNY Mellon’s new service, which will represent a reversal of the trend for larger banks to leave the space.

The threatened imposition of US-China trade tariffs this week is the most obvious sign of increasing protectionism, resulting in a push towards regional trade, but with consumers prioritizing speedy delivery, the move to source locally has other drivers.

February’s volatility has shown that the markets may not always be there for the financing that corporates want to do and that the borrowers may not always be there for the financing that the markets want to do. Financing could be about to change – a lot

The plight of the unbanked in the US’s poorest regions is a modern-day scandal in the world’s richest nation. Southern Bancorp is one bank seeking to address the problem. Euromoney goes to the heart of the battle to beat financial exclusion in rural America.

It has been the busiest first quarter ever for M&A announcements. Deal makers are becoming exuberant amid strong growth synchronized across the developed markets. But rising protectionism in the biggest M&A market of all could yet turn a banner year into one to forget. Should investment bankers fear the new Trump effect?

Ride hailing app raises over $1bln directly; banks may test regulation with lower-rated credits.

The cat is out of the bag: the public is aware that if you want to stop something, you have to stop the financing. Right now in the US, that something is guns.

Finance ministers and central bankers at the G20 have called for greater global coordination in their approach to cryptocurrencies, but that looks a remote prospect when different regulatory bodies in the same country cannot agree a strategy.

New sole president’s success in building non-traditional strengths put him ahead of rival Schwartz

Comments at Las Vegas conference suggest banks ‘should have the right to do the leveraged lending that they want’.